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Word: custom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Countinuing his custom of giving a Christmas, reading each year for Freshmen, Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will deliver well-know selections on Friday, December 14, in the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen to Hear Copeland Reading Before Christmas | 11/22/1934 | See Source »

Revival of the ancient custom of celebrating John Harvard's birthday by appropriate services, has been announced by the Harvard Memorial Society. On next Monday, November 26, the accepted date for the birth of Harvard's founder, the regular morning chapel services will be supplanted by a program commemorating this event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.M.S. WILL CELEBRATE JOHN HARVARD'S BIRTHDAY NOV. 26 | 11/20/1934 | See Source »

Introducing another custom, the University Orchestra will give a concern in the Dining Hall on Wednesday, December 5. Students and their guests are invited to come. Parents of House members will be invited to the dinner and concert on that evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Celebrates | 11/20/1934 | See Source »

Will TIME, as has been its custom, pick a "Man of the Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1934 | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...McGowan libretto, however, moves fast, causes constant amused chuckling. In line with the season's custom of drafting entertainers from other departments of the drama, frail Linda Watkins (June Moon) finds herself cast as an ingenue in a musical piece for the first time. Lillian Emerson, another legitimate actress, is teamed with Harry Richman, the only man on Broadway who can lisp without exciting suspicion. Bob Hope, the irrepressible juvenile of Roberta, displays a pretty wit. And as a freak draw the management has hired Impostor Harry Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), who made a vaudeville appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 19, 1934 | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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